An Indian startup founder, who was fired from his remote US job in March, for \u201cfocusing too much\u201d on his venture, has now successfully achieved $50,000 revenue and $10,000 monthky recurring revenue from the business. <\/p>\n
Harshil Tomar, co-Founder of a startup called Dreamlaunch narrated his journey from devastation to success, in a detailed post on social media platform X (formerly Twitter).<\/p>\n
Was told \u2018we have to part ways. I was devastated\u2019<\/p>\n
According to Tomar, he was fired from a remote job with a US company \u201cexactly six months ago\u201d. He joined the morning meeting at 7 am on March 13 and gave updates on his work. \u201cI observed my TL was a bit down. I asked him in the end what’s the reason and there it was \u201cwe have to part ways\u201d,\u201d Tomar recounted.<\/p>\n
Reason simply being I was focusing too much on my startup as per them. I begged them to give me another chance if possible so that I could do better work and at a faster pace but alas the decision was made<\/p>\n
\u201cI was devastated. I told my friend @ilavanyajain that I got fired and he was like \u201care you joking\u201d for like 4-5 times. Then I told my co-founder @WasimShips of the same,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
At that point dreamlaunch was doing $1000\/mo roughly and the money wasn’t enough to give me the confidence to go all in<\/p>\n
For the next 10-15 days, I was in a confused state of choosing my dream or looking for a safety net again. I asked all my friends for referrals and thankfully there were few that could be arranged<\/p>\n
I was scared. I had like 9 Months of total Runway if I lived Super cheaply. I sat down and went to play out all scenarios possible, the best and the worst and the okay one as well<\/p>\n
Finally I took the call. I will live cheaply, I will try to figure this out. Every day I spend more looking for safety, my life would push me towards not taking risk. 1 year more, I will need to pay rents, 1 year more, I will need to think about buying house, 1 year more, I will need to think about marriage<\/p>\n
So I took my call. Let’s go all in ! In the worst case, I will find some freelance gigs and make $1000\/mo from them so life could always keep running<\/p>\n
We started on this journey, I started with a small salary from going full-time. My co-founder ( @WasimShips ) suggested this and he did not withdraw any finance to help ensure I stay afloat<\/p>\n
To this date, my parents still think I am doing my main job as well. I tell them I spend 2-3 hours coding each day and just resolve the tickets they give me<\/p>\n
Families can be pretty scary to deal with in such situations so I finalised keeping the decision reserved to myself<\/p>\n
In these 6 months, I have seen all highs and lows. From months with 0 clients to working with biggest brands. The Journey has made me more thick skinned than anything I have ever experienced in life<\/p>\n
But with showing up daily, things happened. I got sponsors, I got retainers, I got things happening<\/p>\n
– we completed $50k revenue.<\/p>\n
– Finally about to hire our 1 -> 10 team.<\/p>\n
– Have had months w\/ $10k MRR.<\/p>\n
– Got selected in Residency<\/p>\n
Tbh this bet could have played out bad. I would have had to shut things down. I would have to look for job. But I took the scary jump and the universe rewarded me I guess<\/p>\n
The little kid inside me who at once saw the dream of being a enterprenuer watching Sharktank USA finally launched his own dream, helping others build their own<\/p>\n
If you are reading till here; This is your sign, to keep going, keep showing up daily and keep hustling !<\/p>\n
Lock in, work hard. Figure out what you want. Ignore the opinions of others. And do so much volume that it would be unreasonable that you\u2019d be unsuccessful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Indian startup founder, who was fired from his remote US job in March, for \u201cfocusing too much\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[79741,79740,13450,79746,18873,79745,84,79739,4203,79743,79747,79742,79744,58800,19203,28119,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-179722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entrepreneurship","tag-000-monthly-recurring-revenue","tag-000-revenue","tag-13450","tag-10000-monthly-recurring-revenue","tag-18873","tag-50000-revenue","tag-business","tag-dreamlaunch","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-entrepreneurship-journey","tag-harshil-tomar","tag-indian-startup-founder","tag-monthly-recurring-revenue","tag-remote-job","tag-revenue","tag-startup-founder","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}